Talk:AUR helpers

Add Raur (rust package) to the list of 'Other's at the bottom.

Hey guys! I'm the lead developer of raur. I was simply wondering if it could be added to the bottom. It seems to be more comprehensive than the existing aur.rs as it implements the entire interface, as well as all search strategies provided by the interface.

Batch interaction isn't specific to pacman wrappers, at least not 2. The legend denotes it as a column though, which it isn't. At the same time, I'm not sure if replacing "columns" with "columns and values" is a good idea.

If we document all the unsafe flags, I would argue it's out of scope in this article and should be expanded in System_maintenance#Avoid_certain_pacman_commands instead. (Side-note: what if a regular AUR helper uses an unsafe command to e.g. install dependencies? None of the current entries do, but it's a possible scenario.) -- Alad (talk) 13:26, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

packer should still be mentioned in the wiki even if it's discontinued

I had no idea where the packer aur package went because **apparently** someone decided to completely remove it from every single mention on the wiki. How was I supposed to know it was discontinued? Do I have to check the edit history just to know? What about all the other people who might still use packer, as there was a fork that has also disappeared in the AUR? Am I supposed to move to a different helper or fork it myself? Absolutely no consideration.

It's no longer in the AUR (same for yaourt and countlessly many other helpers which were discontinued over the years). If you want to keep track of this, you can enable email notifications. -- Alad (talk) 15:20, 23 May 2019 (UTC)